阿卡索小资系列之 English Listening Practice -- Speech

Chapter 1 Lesson 3

The Benefits of Failure

-- J. K. Rowling

Content: Teaching and Learning Goals:

• Fill in the Blanks 6’
• Retell 7’
• Imitation 5’
• Language Points 4’
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• listen to the material for 2 times
• retell the speech
• imitate the intonation (语调)
• get the main idea
 Fill in the Blanks Retell Imitation Language Points After class
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Scan the questions first. Then listen to
the audio and fill in the blanks below.

1. Failure gave me an inner _______ that I had never attained by passing

examinations.
2. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more _______ than I had suspected.
3. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until
both have been tested by ________.
4. …life is not a check-list of acquisition or _________.
1’20’’
5. Life is difficult, and _________, and beyond anyone's total control …

Tutor: Please let the student scan the questions and do the exercises. Listen to it again if the student
cannot get the answer for the first time. The keys are on the next page.
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 Fill in the Blanks Retell Imitation Language Points After class
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Check your answers.

1. security
2. discipline
3. adversity
4. achievement
5. complicated

Tutor: Please check the answers with the student.

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 Fill in the Blanks Retell Imitation Language Points After class
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Listen to the audio again, make notes,
and retell the speech in your own words.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

What did failure give What can you get from What would I tell my 21-
me? setbacks? year-old self?
Hints:
inner security ability to survive life is not a…
myself yourself/ strength of qualifications, CV
strong will/discipline your relationships difficult/complicated/
1’20’’
friends painfully beyond control

Tutor: Please let the student retell twice (retell – feedback – retell), and correct his/her mistakes.
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 Fill in the Blanks Retell Imitation Language Points After class
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Listen and read each
sentence, imitating
the intonation.

1. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.
Failure 'taught me things abou myself that I could've 'learned no other 'way.
2. …until both have been tested by adversity.
…until 'both have been 'teste by a-'versity.
3. …though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.
…though you 'will mee 'many people of my age and 'older who confuse the two.

Tutor: Please help the student to imitate the speech with appropriate intonation.
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 Fill in the Blanks Retell Imitation Language Points After class
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Learn the words and
expressions.
• Failure gave me an inner security attain: to reach or succeed in getting
that I had never attained by passing something (获得)
examinations. e.g. He has attained the highest grade
in his music exams.
• The knowledge that you have setback: something delays or
emerged wiser and stronger from prevents a process (挫折)
setbacks means that you are, ever e.g. There has been a temporary
after, secure in your ability to setback in our plans.
survive. acquisition: things that one gets
e.g. ...the President's recent
• …personal happiness lies in knowing acquisition of a helicopter.
that life is not a check-list of
acquisition or achievement.
Tutor: Please teach the words and phrases shortly. Let the student make sentences. Keep it in 4 mins.
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 Fill in the Blanks Retell Imitation Language Points After class
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Full Text materials.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing
examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have
learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more Script
discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose of the whole
value was truly above the price of rubies.
speech
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks
means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will
never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both
have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is
painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever
earned.
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal
happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or Audio track
achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will
meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is
of the whole
difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the speech
humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

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The Benefits of Failure

Bye!

Content:
Teaching and Learning Goals:
• Fill in the Blanks 6’
• listen to the material for 2 times
• Retell 7’
• retell the speech
• Imitation 5’
• imitate the intonation (语调)
• Language Points 4’
• get the main idea
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